Edward Snowden: Man Without a Country?

WSJ's Paul Sonne outlines Edward Snowden's dwindling asylum options as the NSA whistleblower is believed to be still holed up in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.

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... the the ... the use of highly the international intrigue Behind Edward Snowden's globe spanning plea for asylum late yesterday the plane curing Bolivian President Hugo morale is ... was forced to land in Austria ... after France and Portugal refuse to allow it to ensure their airspace thinking still might be aboard ... and it's been amazing story we've got going on here we've got all Sony ... in Moscow all good morning ... morning okay so ... what happens with with President Morales is plain ... so aam ... arouses here in Moscow yesterday for a gas exporters conference ... on use your longtime close Maduro aam from Venezuela as well as my reminded of from Iran ... when he left the Moscow airport on his way back home last night ... he was not allowed his team was not allowed to fly through ... French Portuguese airspace ... and she was forced to ... own land at the airport Indiana ... and later the Bolivian government data statement ... on a very angry statement saying that the reason she be forced to land which ... the president's life ... was because ... air traffic control it believed that he might have Edwards from a bird display ... okay it is his said ... asked if if a levy would grant asylum ... he said quote yes why not ... correct ... I guess ... okay so it that actually you mention of those are the two countries ... that ... are an option here Bolivia and Venezuela but there's a long list of countries ... that has said no ... and without that list including Brazil ... Germany India the Netherlands ... Norway Poland ... Russia actually ... a ... Snowden's application was withdrawn ... aam does along with also unlikely countries ... which we don't have time to go through all of them ... aam ... but I suppose you what's interesting here ... a week ago ... China ... Russia and they didn't seem too concerned about us ... the U S protests about about that Snowden started ... globe trotting in that seems to have changed what happened ... the US has revoked his passport is you know which is really ... limited his ability to leave Moscow Shinichi airport ... and also Tuesday putting pressure on me and this different way over stocks he might make his way to a place like Ecuador Venezuela and ... Bolivia ... we know that the key when he was he was initially ... scheduled to go on a flight from Moscow to Cuba which theoretically could of taken him through Crockett that process or through Caracas to Quito on and for some reason he didn't get on flight and a few weeks later statement saying that ... the US in pressuring on your immediately countries on his journey ... ALM so the service has definitely taken action in ... the Kremlin position is based here in the same which is you can stay in our airports out we're not going to extradite you an optimist and you've got your STT to face U S space US authorities ... but we don't particularly wanted to stay here ... on and that's partly why the reasons that he withdrew his its own applications stake here to be ... the case with Ecuador's also ... kind of fascinating A O it seemed like ... a raw Felcor and was going to allow ... you to seriously consider an application for asylum ... now he's ... clearly he's Ponting on a correct ... well ... he heard it who is still saying that they would consider an application for asylum if Edward soon were able to make it to their territory ... aam but they but they have done is ... the Ecuadorian consul and injured issued ... return with ... a refugee dot travel documents and Russell Korea later cannot answer that that was issued with out the supervision of Quito and it was in balance so that is only the document that now that business prospered has been invalidated he might've been able to get to Ecuador ... so what they're saying that they would consider this application ... the teaching of rejected or territory ... which they notice when you cannot crossover few meetings held up and to make it get ... so here is that this with a look to shrink its going on the big question for every now is book travel documents he get that allow them to move ... on if he doesn't have a US passport he can apply to Russia for refugee travel documents e can try to hope that come to light with the error Venezuela ... would provide him with some sort of refugee passage documents are able to enable him to Luther airports without a passport ... as a public question is really facing now now that he's he's sent out these various pleas for asylum on unseen the responses that he's gotten ... used to make a decision on can we can try to get documents that will allow me to get some way or ... another country or from Russia and well for the moment he is stuck in the Moscow airport however I think you also need so much for joining us ... there